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Frank-> Excellent point about how tabletop RPGs are not similar to computer RPGs in terms of continuous flow of character motion. My own personal model on how the RPG Army works is similar to that of tactical RPGs such as Final Fantasy Tactics, Heroes of Might & Magic, Warhammer: Dark Omens. In ...

Frank-> Yep! What I'm thinking of is a bit like Heroes of Might & Magic. Except each stack is commanded by only one player each. Albeit some options may allow a player to command multiple, smaller stacks. I am honestly a bit worried this may come off as a miniatures game as well. However, I *thi...

A bit like that. Each player will generally get to command only one unit (barring special command feats), as having 3 units per commander will slow down play to a crawl.

GM takes control of the entire enemy army, yes.

Hey guys! Just throwing out a possible core RPG idea/concept here. Has anyone ever tried to make an RPG where the player-characters are each the commander of an army of soldiers? And the said army of soldiers is actually on the field instead of just in the background? From a combat perspective, most...

So... Flamer good, try to maximize the kill skill, and don't worry about broken combos. Right.

How about ship to ship combat?

Zinegata, if you're going to zoom into the campaign that much then why even use WH40K? Shadowrun is a pretty enormous world, so much that there are entire MU*s out there dedicated to exploring one city. But these cities have their own sourcebooks and RL material to draw upon. How are you supposed t...

What are some specifics that you want? I have the book in my hands right now. 1) Any major pitfalls to watch out for regarding character creation and ship creation. What are the stuff you should do, what should you avoid like the plague, etc. 2) Any broken combos. 3) How hard/easy it is to balance ...

Frank-> It depends from what perspective you're looking the universe at. Dark Heresy offers a PoV from largely insignificant people, hence you're gonna have to make their home planet (presumably where all the adventures are) from scratch. However, with a few levels the party can actually be wealthy ...

Koumei-> The seemingly low chances of success was a very major concern of mine in Dark Heresy which is why I generally avoided it. Stat-wise it seems that there's a 50-50 chance of success for most actions in Rogue Trader, but I don't know if this improves matters (albeit the Rogue Trader's +10% bon...

Souran-> Picking the Inquisition and Rogue Traders as the focus for an RPG is actually pretty sensible in my book. If you actually bothered to look beyond the GRIM DARK crap in the tabletop rulebooks written by the dimwits it's actually Inquisitors, Rogue Traders, and their retinues that get to have...

Yep. The problem with the game fluff is that it is so GRIMDARK that one quickly comes to the conclusion that everyone in the 40K universe is insane, right down to the house wives and infants. Anyone who had the temerity to point out the absurdity of the situation was probably carted off and executed...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Koumei, Zinegata, I have no idea what you guys are talking about, sorry.

What exactly are you looking for exactly?

And nobody has played Rogue Trader here and has any comments?

While we're talking about WH40K, here's a question from someone who has heard mostly boosterism and advertising from the fans. What is up with the Tau? I heard that they used to be a genuine good-guy race but people got pissed and they were derailed into something evil again? What's the story behin...

Hi guys!

Question, has anyone tried out the new Rogue Trader RPG yet? Is it good? Any pitfalls to watch out for?

To some extent (I'm not too familiar with White Wolf lore and I just looked it up after you mentioned it). The major difference is that they aren't supposed to start off superpowered compred to everyone else, and that the entire world isn't out to get them - mainly just the followers of a rival God ...

Preamble: I'm not sure if anyone else has tried making a "fixed" Favored Soul yet, but I'd like to open the discussion to it now. I actually kinda like the class based on one campaign where I played an FS of Heironeous. Discussion will be seperated between Fluff and Mechanics, with fluff g...

Thanks for the loads and loads of inputs guys :). Just a few extra questions/observations: Questions 1) Is Frank referring to Robin Law's Feng Shui? 2) There have been several comments about tying AP to initiative. Do most AP systems have characters spend one AP at a time in initiative order, or is ...

Okay, first of all, a definition of terms: When I say "Action Point" I don't refer to the D&D mechanic where you have a pool of points that you can spend to add a bonus to a die roll (alternatively called "Destiny" or "Fate" points in other systems). I refer to the ...

What if your campaign moves from a PoD to a PoL place? What if your Templar group decides to "Screw the God-King! I'm joining the rebel villages outside!" Then your campaign instantly turns from PoD to PoL. Setting vs campaign is a bit of hair-splitting honestly. The important word is &quo...

I think both sides are demonstrating the really big problem with Points of Light and Points of Darkness setting though: It can't be the absolute state of the entire world. It's always relative . If one looks at the real world, you can claim that it's a mainly "PoD" world when you look at A...

Now we get to the really exciting numbers. Remember Titanium Dragon's linked Shill interview ? Greg Leeds says everything is fine at WotC land several times in very specifically vague ways. Selling through of "printings" rather than "units" - that sort of thing. But look at what...

In fact, the moment anyone disagrees you people start flaming them Nah. Mostly just you. On the grounds that you're an idiot who seriously argues that hundreds of thousands are bigger than millions. You saying something makes the thing you said less likely to be true . Now we're finally at the leve...

I think it was both. Basically, the only civilized refuges from the desert were ruled by evil dictators who happened to have 20+ levels in both wizard and psion. Furthermore, there was no escape from the trouble at high levels, because if you ever got past 20th level, you automatically made powerfu...

So guys, we still feeding the troll in here? I guess so. Have fun with that. If he gets banned/ignored, he'll probably go whining to the WoTC boards how the TGDMB people "oppressed" him in an effort to marginalize TGDMB. I say we keep feeding him and let him dig deeper holes. So when the ...

Of course he can swear as much as he wants. I never said that he couldn't. Obviously you fail at reading yet again. Though given that you fail at pretty much everything else, that is utterly unsurprising. Liar, "I'm all for swearing, but just because you can swear doesn't mean you should do so...